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Interstellar Pioneers Facing Termination

Posted by samzenpus on from the throw-that-old-thing-out dept.

marcel-jan.nl writes "There are plans to terminate the interstellar missions Voyager 1 and 2 and the solar mission Ulysses in October to save money. The Voyagers alone need $4.2 million a year for daily operation and data analysis. Scientist say this cut is "an extremely foolish thing to do": the Voyagers are approaching the edge of the Solar System and Ulysses is observing the Sun coming to the end of a 22-year magnetic cycle."

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  1. Re:*sigh* Figures Bush is against science by phats+garage · · Score: 1, Troll
    You are of course right, but the American people voted their preference for this shortsightedness.

    While killing foreigners is immensely popular to watch on the evening news and deserving of many billions of dollars, science doesn't kill anybody, theres no explosions and so is very uninteresting to your average joe sixpack.